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Session 10 Wed 8 Dec: “The End of History” the end of everything

Critical practices in Postmodernism, grand narratives and the era of the postmodern. Figures of the postmodern: irony, pastiche, Fukuyama, Hutcheon, Lyotard, Jameson, Harvey

Viewing: D-i-a-l History –J.Grimonprez –Life of Brian, Monty Python.

Whereas postmodernity is a condition or a state of being associated with changes to institutions and conditions (Giddens, 1990) and with social and political results and innovations, globally but especially in the West since the 1960s, postmodernism is an aesthetic, literary, political or social philosophy, the “cultural and intellectual phenomenon”, especially since the 1920s’ new movements in the arts.

According to the Postmodern Worldview, the Western world society is an outdated lifestyle disguised under impersonal and faceless bureaucracies. The postmodernist endlessly debates the modernist about the Western society needing to move beyond their primitiveness of ancient traditional thought and practices.